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Less than Nothing, or, The Life and Times of Sterling Finny

An advertising piece used by the New Yorker magazine to solicit subscriptions.

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Unknown
Language
English
Pages
26

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First Sentence

"It was June."

Edition Notes

E. B. White's first published book.

Published in
New York

The Physical Object

Number of pages
26
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL51156746M
OCLC/WorldCat
4855451

Work Description

An advertising piece published to attract subscriptions to the New Yorker magazine. E. B. White's first published book.

Excerpts

It was June. Sterling Finny was sitting in the smoking-car of a Central Illinois chu-chu train reading all about culture. He read about the young man in the motor car on his way home from a party, who had never once looked into Elbert Hubbard's scrap-book; so that when the subject of the burrowing habits of piddocks came up, he was practically mute. As he gazed on the anguished face of this big stiff, Sterling stirred uneasily. Could such a thing ever happen to him, Sterling Finny? He glanced uneasily around.

At his side sat Phineas J. Mott, the President of the Second National Bank of Herrin, Illinois. Here was Sterling's chance. If he could engage President Mott in some sort of enlightening conversation, he, Sterling Finny, might well win the great man's favor and obtain a position in Mr. Mott's bank.
added by @john_gilmore.

First page's text, visible in the EBay listing trying to sell the book.

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February 22, 2024 Edited by @john_gilmore Add E. B. White's first book (now in the public domain, but no copy is known to be online yet). Details sourced from Wikipedia, WorldCat and EBay.
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